The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
| Title | The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica |
| Year for Search | 1983 |
| Authors | Batchelor, John Calvin(b. 1948) |
| Date Published | 1983 |
| Publisher | Dial Press |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | US author |
| Annotation | Complex dystopia that originates in the U.S. draft resistance community in Sweden. The original protagonists, together with various friends and relatives and others picked up along the way, travel to the Falkland Islands with some going further south to an island off Antarctica. At every point there is conflict and the attempt, sometimes successful, to impose a particular, though varying, view of the good life on others, thus creating a series of dystopias. |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-St, PSt |
| Author Note | (b. 1948) |
| Full Text | 1983 Batchelor, John Calvin (b. 1948). The Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica. Complex dystopia that originates in the U.S. draft resistance community in Sweden. The original protagonists, together with various friends and relatives and others picked up along the way, travel to the Falkland Islands with some going further south to an island off Antarctica. At every point there is conflict and the attempt, sometimes successful, to impose a particular, though varying, view of the good life on others, thus creating a series of dystopias. |
